I was undiagnosed in college at 17 and hid in my dorm room all day to stay away from the other males who I considered to be toxic. Only went out to eat and use the restrooms, showered around 1am when everyone else was asleep. Everyone talked about me because I acted so weird. Staff didn’t help at all because at the time the religious school administration didn’t believe in mental illness, that way they can point blame right back to the person that’s unhappy.
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I can relate to staying in the dorm all day and night. I only left to eat and use the restroom. I’d buy booze and drink heavily by myself to help pass the time. It was so unhealthy, i didn’t have any friends either.
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Thank you, Zeke. Being happy in a strange environment with paranoia was very difficult. In my two years there two people committed suicide because they were trapped by the pressure of their parents.
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my sz started at 17. saw a psychiatrist at 35 who diagnosed it as sz. been on medication ever since.
sucks as hell. always feel like I m stoned and as if my mind has blown away and out of my mind.
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I was a strange child. I remember hearing voices at a young age and asking a junior high school friend if that was normal. She reassured me that it was. We must have been 12 or 13. But I was strange before that. Even as a little kid I had weird beliefs. But I don’t know if that was sz or not. I had a psychotic episode when I was 16. Anyway I was young but not diagnosed until I was in my 40’s.
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I was 3. Its never gone into remission tho. I do have episodes that are worse than my normal crazy and I’ve regressed over the years but hey I’m still on my own so it could be worse.
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I was 19 i think.
Life was sooo amazing before i got sz.
Im trying to get back there.
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I was 7 years old.
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I was 25 at first psychosis.
I was 30 when things began for me. I was in school and working. I lost everything I was working toward.
I was 19 too when I had my first psychosis. That’s a typical onset for men. I had no prodrome just randomly was psychotic one day.
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I remember having symptoms as early as 16 but psychosis didn’t sink in until 20.
12 for my first few voices. 14 almost 15 for my first bout of major psychosis. I ended up clinically dead twice.
Didn’t get on medication til I was 32. 20 years of voices, episodic psychosis and self medicating with drugs and alcohol.
I don’t really remember exactly when things started, but for sure by 16. Likely before then, though. I was diagnosed with psychotic depression the summer I was turning 18.
34 years old. First time with delusions
Started hearing a sound coming from the apartment upstairs some time in my 20s (I still hear it sometimes).
Had a strange condition, which, among other effects, inhibited my reading and learning capabilities, for unknown duration of time. I didn’t notice it while it was there, until one day it suddenly disappeared; the change was quite profound. The strange condition returned in just a few seconds.
I had problems with learning in late teens or early 20s. I also had problems with short-term memory in my 20s.
I was 11 when my symptoms started then it gone a lot worse when I was 21
I was 14. Strange thing is, the same summer of my first hospitalization I was walking around the local streets and talking to people, despite the meds doing nothing good. I would walk a mile or two to the park to play streetball, too.
Had a weird thing at 18 but I generally say 23